For those who know me, I am a Windows Mobile user. Yes, I’m currently one of the 0.5% of mobile device users sporting a Windows Mobile phone. While the devices have their flaws, I appreciate the simple interface and live tiles.

Here’s a collection of devices I had at one point. This included one Blackberry, two Android, two Windows Mobile, and one IOS device:

I was an Android user for several years before switching. Lately, as I mull over whether Windows Mobile has a future, I was noticing that all of my sons’ friends are using Iphones. One of my two has an IPhone SE, while the other uses a LG Android device. However, all of his peers are on IOS.

I got to thinking. What is the percentage of users on IOS in the United States for those 15 to 25 years old. According to reports like this one, over 2/3 of teenagers use an Iphone and that number is expected to increase. In fact, Fortune is now reporting that the number has increased to 76% of teens.

So, what – if anything – does that mean for the future of mobile? Currently Android is the far dominant mobile device operating system in the world with over 80% of all phones running Android. In the US, it only commands a 55% of the market, but is that increasing or decreasing?

Hard to say, but I’m wondering out loud if those teenagers using the Apple ecosystem are going to eventually become business owners, managers, and executives who demand their companies purchase or switch to Iphones.

According to various media outlets, the fact that I still use a Windows Mobile device means I’m n the less than 1% of all phone users. I currently use an HP Elite X3 as my daily go-to device.

I need to post a review of it, but that’s coming. In a nutshell, the phone is the perfect size at 6″ diagonal. The battery lasts all day, it can take two SIM cards or a SIM an SD card, it has front-facing speakers, a decent (if not great) camera, and both iris scanning as well as a fingerprint reader.

The only drawback some would say is that it runs Windows Mobile.

In fact, according to a recent article, Windows Phones and Windows Mobile will all but disappear by 2021.

In my corporate environment, I rely heavily on our Microsoft Exchange email. I use my calendar to run my life, and need access to my documents all the time. The cloud (which I wrote about some years earlier) allows me to do this with my phone. I can view my calendar, access my email, access my (mostly Microsoft) documents, and collaborate.

In addition, there’s Continuum. While, I don’t believe this is as much a game changers as Microsoft (and HP) hoped, it is still very useful. I have a primary office. At that office, I have two monitors hooked up to a desktop computer. I also roam around and occasionally use a second desk. I can hook into the network at that desk and use my X3 to remotely get work done.

Back in December, Microsoft announced somehting called Windows 10 on ARM – this basically is a new feature which will allow for x86 emulation baked into an ARM chipset. This is the type of chip running on many tablets and all cellular devices.

Here’s a video of how the process might work.

Essentially, a phone would be able to run a full Windows 32 application such as Photoshop, Firefox, Chrome, or one of the millions of in-house developed applications. Of course, no one would seriously want to run Photoshop on a touch-only 6″ device. But using a 6″ device that could then be attached to a 27″ monitor, keyboard, mouse, and possibly digitizer would be an attractive option.

Intel was rumored to be creating a chip that could run Win 32 apps as well as be low powered back in 2015. However, earlier in 2016 they announced they were cancelling the production of low-power Atom chips, which would have been able to run full Windows 32 applications in a mobile environment. It seems that Microsoft is overcoming this with the new Snapdragon 835 processor that can virtualize an x86 environment.

Just last week, Google researchers announced that they have managed to render one of the internet security standards obsolete. While this is not unexpected, the fact that the first encryption scheme is breakable, sends a clear signal that researchers need to ensure continuing development. Google reported on February 23rd that the encryption method known as SHA-1 was breached. This means that a document or file encrypted with SHA-1 can no longer 100% be trusted to be authentic. SHA, or Secure Hash Algorithm, is a method developed by the United States Institute of Standards and Technology for encrypting a file before sending. The file can be reliably known to have no alterations when being received. The standard was developed in 1993, and has since seen multiple revisions. Currently, a variant on SHA-2 is being used, known as SHA-256.

Since all e-commerce depnds on the ability for party A to “trust” the transmission sent by or to party B, secure encryption is an absolute must. While the hash collision is news, SHA-1 has been surpassed for several years by newer encryption algorithms. Most e-commerce sites use more secure methods such as SHA-256. The interesting thing about this discovery is that we are on the road to even SHA-256 being compromised in the future.